Category Archives: Million Dollars

GRIT: a distributed fashion brand

Posted on March 22, 2018 by gemmell

The idea behind GRIT is that to make it as an entrepreneur you have to have GRIT. How can you topple a brand like Nike and Reebok? You go distributed. So GRIT is about making a clothing brand that is … Continue reading →

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Email auto-reply bot.

Posted on November 18, 2017 by gemmell

Work from your outbox, not your inbox. So this builds on a previous idea to be able to tag and categorise email by task so that you can set work modes that you can work in. In this one, it … Continue reading →

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Magic Basket

Posted on October 27, 2017 by gemmell

Magic Basket is a basket you put out the front of your house. You throw your dirty washing in one side, it appears washed and folded in the other. The magic is that franchisees come and collect it and wash … Continue reading →

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Locali.ty Social Network

Posted on June 17, 2014 by gemmell

This is an extension of the “travel face” idea where people fade out of your social network if you don’t “care” about their posts, and it adds everyone within 20m of you to your feed. So this is kind of … Continue reading →

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Dusting Slippers

Posted on February 18, 2013 by gemmell

We’ve touched on this before, but why don’t Enjo produce a line of slippers that have their mops on the bottom? Imagine putting on those things and dancing around the lounge room, getting up a bit of speed and sliding … Continue reading →

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Exclusive Ebay

Posted on March 4, 2012 by gemmell

This idea is similar to the Most Expensive Stereo In The World idea. It’s an exclusive auction site where you can’t just sign up, you have to be invited based on your bank balance. Through this auction house exclusive items are auctioned … Continue reading →

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A site to match CTO’s and CEO’s

Posted on December 7, 2011 by gemmell

This is solving the problem of matching up CTO’s and CEO’s – I read an article (http://www.forbes.com/sites/venkateshrao/2011/12/05/the-rise-of-developeronomics/) which says “Cartoons of homeless-looking CEOs holding up signs that say “Looking for a technical co-founder” are doing the rounds. Heck, I am … Continue reading →

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Instant Tradie

Posted on September 9, 2011 by gemmell

An extension to the Tradie Tracker tool – lets say you do it as a hosted service in the cloud. That means you have schedule data for a whole swath of tradies, and what they do. So using this, you … Continue reading →

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ShiekMe

Posted on November 24, 2010 by gemmell

This is a website where people who are too busy or just don’t care for shopping pay a subscription, upload a photo and some people in the fashion industry select clothes that are fashionable and suit them. During sign up … Continue reading →

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Beam forming audio for sports – 3d.

Posted on October 12, 2010 by fletcher

Simon read about basket ball games which used multiple mics for focusing audio during basketball games.could we use similar technology for both augmenting tv but also add 3d sound to live games?

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